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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: trapperguy22 on April 30, 2017, 03:33:08 PM

Title: Horse clams
Post by: trapperguy22 on April 30, 2017, 03:33:08 PM: Is there anywhere around tokeland, grayland to dig horse clams?
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: stkflker on April 30, 2017, 10:00:28 PM: There's hawks point off highway 105 or nemah off 101 but both are closed right now do to bio toxins.
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 01, 2017, 08:47:44 AM: Hawks point does have them? I have racked steamers there was wondering if I could get horse clams there. What do you look for to get them?
Also I just checked with the health dept. and Hawks point, willapa bay is open for all clams except razors.
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: HntnFsh on May 01, 2017, 09:15:04 AM: Quote from: trapperguy22 on May 01, 2017, 08:47:44 AM
Hawks point does have them? I have racked steamers there was wondering if I could get horse clams there. What do you look for to get them?
Also I just checked with the health dept. and Hawks point, willapa bay is open for all clams except razors.

I usually find hrose clams in the same place as steamers. Just deeper.
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: WAcoueshunter on May 01, 2017, 09:50:41 AM: Quote from: trapperguy22 on May 01, 2017, 08:47:44 AM
What do you look for to get them?

Horse clams stick their neck out of the sand like a geoduck. So look for a hole in the sand with a neck in the middle. You can also look for them squirting water as you walk around the beach. If you touch the neck it will retract, leaving an empty hole about the size of a silver dollar. Start digging.
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 01, 2017, 10:04:29 AM: Thanks for all information, I will have to look at Hawks point next time I rack steamers. How deep at they?
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: HntnFsh on May 01, 2017, 06:17:46 PM: A foot or 2. Is there any reason your looking there instead of Hood Canal? Are you getting them for eating or bait?
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: trapperguy22 on May 02, 2017, 04:53:48 PM: Getting them to eat. Not sure where to go on the hood canal,where's a good place on the canal?
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: stkflker on May 02, 2017, 05:33:04 PM: Dosewallips an duckabush have them.

If you can get to hope island in MA 13 it's loaded with them.
Title: Re: Horse clams
Post by: HntnFsh on May 02, 2017, 07:59:47 PM: Yep. Dosie and Duck. Sure there are a few other places too. I don't care for them. The bonus is you can get steamers too!